Behind tub drain
Very rotten wood
Vent stack and a big hole
(May 2024)
I originally wanted to renovate my bathroom in 2023 but it didn't happen. This is unfortunate because around Dec. 2023 my water heater sprung a leak and was replaced. It would have been nice to incorporate the water heater replacement with the bathroom renovation. Oh well. Here are some pics from 2023. You can see a PEX patch made recently. I don't remember when but you can see that it was leaking for a long time. Lots of water damage.
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Behind tub drain |
Very rotten wood |
Vent stack and a big hole |
(April 2024)
I found a product called "Palisade" that is an interlocking vinyl tile product much like used in flooring but this is used for shower installs. Hopefully easier than ceramic tile.
 A nearby Lowes has it |
 They only had two styles |
 This looks just like the flooring i selected |
 So I went with a more gray look |
I removed the 1970s era wood panelling and found perfectly good and even painted plaster underneath. Why did we install panelling everywhere?
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(April 2024)
When I bought the house, there was a mirror mounted in the wall tile. I quickly put a medicine cabinet over it because the bathroom had no storage. No drawers, no shelves, nothing. Now that mirror has to go.
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(May, 30, 2024)
In planning for not having a shower, I purchased a cheap outdoor shower and installed it in my back yard with a garden hose. It worked pretty well. The water even got too hot depending on the time you used it. The shower lasted just under four months when one side of it ripped open and then the unit collapsed. I was hoping to get a little more time out of it but oh well.
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With the shower situation under control, real demo could begin.
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 Long live the fish! |
 Relax, I saved the fish |
 Between bath and danger rooms | |
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Demoing the shower was fun. There was a complete plastic shower insert under the plastic shower insert, with regular drywall under that. But the exterior wall is even weirder. It has the two plastic shower inserts but then a layer of wallpaper on top of the famous pink tile all on top of a layer rock-wall and plaster. Giving all these layers, furring out from 2x4 to 2x6, I don't really loose any floor space. :)
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With the walls open it was time to demo the tub and floor. With some lubrication and leverage, I was able to disconnect the tub without having to cut it. Then a call to a couple of friends, a trip to the dump, and it was gone.
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Lubrication and leverage |
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 I did this a month later |
Demo isn't finished yet but I have started repairing some things. The bottom plate of the wet wall was mostly holes, cutouts, and rot. So I replaced it. I also started the corner and top plate for the new wall.
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 studs in wet wall |
Window time. I purchased the window early in 2023. Now it is finally time to install it. The windows were replaced, I am guessing, in the 1980s given that they are double-pain and aluminum frames. So I didn't need to cut the stucco, I just needed to break it up to the cut the made in the 80s.
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Since I have everything open, and it is code, I guess I will install an exhaust fan.
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Plumbers. I hate plubming and BarJ is a good plumbing company in town so I am happy to give them my business.
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Structure repair. Apparently installing a toilet can involve cutting all the way throug a floor joist. This seems extreemly crazy to me but that is what they did when they built the house. So I fixed it.
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(September 2024)
The plubmers have finished enough of the drain and water inlet system that I can start installing subfloor.
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